Leaf Blowers

john-e-big-guns
john-e-big-guns Posts: 489
edited November 2009 in The bottom bracket
Today as I rode passed someone using one blowing loads of leaves and other crap from his open plan garden front into the road..and thought what a waste of time and energy come tomorrow they'll have blown back

I am surrounded with oak trees come this time of year I rake them up and place in the garden waste bin
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    May I direct you to the Mundane post thread?
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    john-e-big-guns wrote:
    Today as I rode passed someone using one blowing loads of leaves and other crap from his open plan garden front into the road..and thought what a waste of time and energy come tomorrow they'll have blown back

    Plus there's a good chance all of that stuff'll block up a drain at the side of the road. Clearly he didn't think it through - should've bought one of those garden vac ones instead which suck it all up into a refuse sack (Mum's got one as it's easier on her bad back than endless raking and is chuffed to bits with it).

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    DavidBelcher wrote:
    john-e-big-guns wrote:
    Today as I rode passed someone using one blowing loads of leaves and other crap from his open plan garden front into the road..and thought what a waste of time and energy come tomorrow they'll have blown back

    Plus there's a good chance all of that stuff'll block up a drain at the side of the road. Clearly he didn't think it through - should've bought one of those garden vac ones instead which suck it all up into a refuse sack (Mum's got one as it's easier on her bad back than endless raking and is chuffed to bits with it).

    David
    Not to mention there's a chance of coming off the bike on wet leaves. They're as bad as black ice.

    I broke a finger when I came off. :(
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • proto
    proto Posts: 1,483
    Is he Maria's Norwegian cousin
  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    DavidBelcher wrote:
    john-e-big-guns wrote:
    Today as I rode passed someone using one blowing loads of leaves and other crap from his open plan garden front into the road..and thought what a waste of time and energy come tomorrow they'll have blown back

    Plus there's a good chance all of that stuff'll block up a drain at the side of the road. Clearly he didn't give a monkeys as long as the leaves were not on his grass anymore- should've bought one of those garden vac ones instead which suck it all up into a refuse sack (Mum's got one as it's easier on her bad back than endless raking and is chuffed to bits with it).

    David

    tidied that one for you

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